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Camdon vs Camille

American parents have registered 77,120 Camilles since 1880, against 1,034 Camdons. Camille is still ahead, with 1,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camdon against Camille, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camdon Camille

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Camille has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Camdon had 70 and Camille had 1,326.

Side by side

  Camdon Camille
Total US births 1,03477,120
Most in one year 701,344
Babies in 2025 71,308
Estimated living today 1,00067,000
Median age today 1427
Peak year 20112012
Best rank 1,968th boys237th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th240th
First recorded 19851880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,03475,722 / 1,398

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Camilles alive today are over 27; half the Camdons are over 14. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camdon and Camille.